Review of Lives and Letters of an Immigrant Family: The van Dreveldts' Experiences along the Missouri, 1844-1866 by Kenneth Kronenberg

Authors

Frederick C. Luebke, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow

Date of this Version

1999

Citation

Western Historical Quarterly, Vol. 30, No.4 (Winter, 1999), pp. 523-524

Comments

Published by Utah State University on behalf of Western History Association. Used by permission.

Abstract

Correspondence between immigrants and their families and friends in Europe is a resource that has long been underexploited by American historians, chiefly because of problems of language and accessibility. Seemingly inexhaustible in number, such letters provide invaluable access to the experiences, attitudes, and behaviors of countless ordinary Americans.